The First Man, Director

Eugene O’Neill’s 1922 play The First Man received its first American production in over a century at the Museum of the San Ramon Valley in Danville, CA in January 2023. The heart of the play, a marital conflict over the role of work and motherhood, underscored by personal trauma, proved to be universal and timely. The patriarchal system that surrounds and informs the couple’s conflict was heightened by the theatrical use of a Greek chorus representing the family. In October 2023, Washington University in St. Louis invited EONF to remount its production for its Eugene O’Neill Symposium. Four actors from the original production were joined on stage by five St. Louis actors for this special performance.